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The best of the best in Alabama High
School Football over the past 100 seasons.

2012

Little change
in ASWA poll is calm before the storm

By PAUL BEAUDRY
For The ASWA

Shake-up among the top-five teams in each Alabama High School
Athletic Association class in this week's Alabama Sports Writers Association
high school football poll are as scarce as great calls by NFL replacement
officials.

Expect a change - in the polls, at least - this week with 12 games
between ranked teams and all but one involving top-five programs in a
non-region week for most AHSAA schools.

The marquee game is in Piedmont as the Class 3A No. 1 Bulldogs host
No. 2 Leeds in the first meeting between the two schools since Piedmont's
13-7 Class 3A semifinal win. Leeds held the No. 1 spot for the first two
weeks of the season, then flopped spots with Piedmont after squeaking past
Midfield, 7-6, coupled with the Bulldogs' 49-7 win over Glencoe.

The only change in any of the top five spots in any AHSAA class
came in Class 1A as Brantley and Ragland switched spots and are now ranked
fourth and fifth, respectively.

Class 6A Hoover, 5A Hartselle, 4A Oneonta, 2A Tanner and 1A Marion
County maintained their top-ranked status in their respective classes.
Edgewood Academy stayed atop the AISA rankings, but the rest of the top 10
shuffled with four games between ranked teams last week allowed Monroe
Academy to move into the No. 2 spot and Tuscaloosa Academy to slide in at
No. 3.